Paste-brush.



No. 654,4l4. Patented'luly 24, |900.

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PASTE BRUSH.

(Application lqd Dec. 4, 1899.)

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N'rrnD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM Il. REDINGTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PASTE-BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION fOrmng part 0f Letters Patent No. 654,414, .dated July 24, 1900. Application filed December 4, 1899. Serial No. 739,2l6i (No modali) To all whom t may concern;-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. REDING- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Paste -Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to make a simple, economical, and efficient fiat brush especially adapted to the use of mucilage or paste, but also applicable to other purposes; and the invention consists in the features and combinations hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved brush when used as a paste-brush; Fig. 2, a cross-sction of the brush-holding ferrule before the insertion of the brushes; Fig. 3, across-section of the same with the tubes swaged inwardly to hold the individual brushes; Fig. 4, an enlarged sectional elevation of the brush-holding ferrule and a portion of the fountain; Fig. 5, a modified form of brush, and Fig. 6 a side elevation of a brush adapted for ordinary uses or purposes.

In constructing a paste or mucilage brush in accordance With my improvements and using it in connection with a fountain or collapsible tube A, having a screw-cap or ferrule B, I form the ferrule of soft yielding metal, such as lead or zinc, having at least two spaces h therein, in which small bunches of bristles or individual brushes C C can be inserted. As V,shown inUFig 2, the ferrule in its original state is formed with round or cylindrical openings, in which the bunch of bristles may be inserted. It is afterward swaged or collapsed, so as to form the shapes shown in Fig. 3 and grip the bristles firmly in position. From this arrangement it will be seen that the brush is arranged in the form of a flat brush made up of a gang of two or more smaller brushes without the use of the objectionable rivets.

It is desirable and, indeed, oftentimes necessary in the use ,of paste or mucilage that a supply be furnished to the brushes in as simple and efficient a manner as possible. In

order to accomplish this result, I provide the ferrule or cap, as the case maybe, with a tube D, extending in the same vertical plane as two brushes, a supply-tube extending be tween each pair and connecting witha main supply-tube, should be provided, as shown in Fig. 5. In this figure I have shown the c'ollapsible tube A as provided with a ferrulecap E, containing a brush formed of a gang of five small brushes c. There are four supplytubes e', one between each pair of brushes and connected with a main supply-channel e2, leading to and having connection with the fountain in the collapsible tube.

As far as described my improvement in brushes is set forth as applied to a 'paste or mucilage brush having a fountain supply tube or head; but, as shownin Fig. 6, the form of brush compose'd'of two or more smaller brushes producing a flat brush and dispensing with rivets for securing or attaching the bristle or brush portion to its head or back is applicable to brushes for other uses and purposes without a supply-fountain and delivery'- tubes. The mode of attaching the bristle or brush portion to a head or back can also be used with other forms of brushes than fiat ones. It will therefore be understood that I contemplate using my invention in any and use of a brush constructed as above describedV are its simplicity and economy of manufac= ture.

I claimm 1. In a flat brush, a handle formed of a coln lapsible tube, a head on the handle having an interior chamber .with a delivery opening or openings leading therefrom, and a number of flat brushes secured in the head of the handle side by side adjacent to the opening or openings therein, whereby collapsing the handle supplies the contents thereof to the chamber for delivery to the brushes,A substantially as described.

2. The combination in a flat brush of a num# ber of smaller brushes, carried by a common head side by side in the same longitudinal IOO plane, a series of clasps or sockets corresponding in number to the number of smaller brushes and forming as a whole the head, and made from soft metal to have the bristles of each smaller brush entered into a clasp or socket and held therein by flattening the clasp or socket to spread the bristles, and a discharge-tube bet-Ween the adjacent smaller brushes for supplying mucilage or paste to the brush as a Whole from the interior lof th head, substantially as described.

3. The combination ina'ilat brush of a number of smaller brushes carried by a common head side by side in the same longitudinal plane, a common head, a chamber in the head, a series of clasps or sockets corresponding in number to thenumber of smaller brushes and formed with the head of soft metal, for each small brush and having its bristles entered into a clasp or socket and held therein by Hattening the clasp or socket to spread the bristles, a discharge-tube between each pair of small brushes leading from the chamber of the head, and a collapsible tube containingmucilage orpaste connected with the head for supplying mucilage or paste to the brush as a Whole through the discharge-tubes, substantially as described.

' WILLIAM H. REDINGTON. Witnesses:

ANNIE C. COURTENAY, THOMAS B. MCGREGOR. 

